What About The Aliens?

As I’ve written previously, I believe that the two most important things we need to establish on Mars are potatoes and miniature pigs. Why? Because bacon-wrapped tater tots. On Mars. But I am forced to admit that there are other crops that need to be planted:

Budweiser? I’m not any sort of beer drinker, but even I know that Bud is swill. When (and not if) we attract the attention of other space-faring beings, do we want Earth to be represented by such stuff? I mean, we’re supposed to be doing that “Muslim outreach” crap; what about enrolling a decent German brewery for this?

First impressions count, you know.

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Once, a couple decades ago, at an SCA event, I had some sparkling mead someone had brewed.

‘The mead arrived and Danner took a moment to appreciate Necessitan culture. Colonized by accident over a century before the War, rediscovered only three years before hostilities, the descendants of the survivors of Botany Bay III, the Republic’s third “safety valve” dissident ship, had gone more than a little Norse in their way of life. Properly he should have been drinking from a bull’s horn after spilling a sacrifice to Odin, but this stuff was too good to waste. It was like drinking sunshine, and exports had gone a long way toward bringing Necessity’s economy up to speed….’